Nutrition
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Good nutrition can reduce your chance of developing cancer, as well as heart disease, diabetes, and other serious illness.
Choosing healthy foods also helps you find the right balance of the food you eat and physical activity to maintain your weight within the healthy range for your height. Eating more than you need leads to overweight and obesity, and a range of health problems, including heart disease and type 2 diabetes. We now know that eating well can help to protect us against a number of cancers. There is no one food that can protect against cancer, therefore a wide variety of healthy food is recommended.
So what makes a healthy diet? Cancer Council WA supports the recommendations in The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating (developed by the Australian Government, Department of Health and Ageing). Eating well means enjoying a wide variety of foods and drinks from the five main food groups, and knowing what to limit or avoid.
Click here for more information about Nutrition and cancer and for explanations of various Definitions and terms.
The following links provide information such as the recommended number of serves, serving sizes and tips about how to include more or less of particular foods to help you enjoy a healthier diet:
Other nutrients to consider when selecting a healthy diet include:
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